Doom, Gloom and Destruction - Electronics Style

Yesterday was better for tech in my life, but what a horrible several days! I'm so happy they seem to be over. I ended up working through the sign-on to the Business portion of Social Security with them on the phone with me just in case something went screwy. No faith, me! But everything actually went really smoothly and my questions were answered. I was able to get the data entered correctly and ready to print out. 

HOWEVER 

My printer at the shop, that had been warning me that it needed new ink soon, decided now was the time. I changed the requested ink cartridge and suddenly what had been aligned and beautiful printing, was corrupt, horrible, and unreadable. Call me unhappy once again. After fussing with it for more than half an hour, cleaning, testing, re-cleaning, aligning, etc., I finally gave up and decided to print the forms from home last night - which worked out fine. 

I have an old Epson NX-420 at the shop. We don't do a lot of
printing there, so it's fine, and it's been used and abused for years.
I might have to declare it dead, although I'm still going to try
a few things today to see if I can get a few more months of
printing from it. 

That left me with a single program that wasn't opening on my home computer. Unfortunately, it's one I use every day and really can't be without. I can access it on the laptop, but the laptop is MUCH slower, and I am not patient with that. Additionally, the desktop is really where I need to be accessing it. 

This is NOT what I want to see when I'm trying to access
a program. It took a while (it's an old program and I had
to do some digging), but I finally was able to download a
new copy of the program and it seems to be operating
correctly now. Thank goodness! 

After research it came back as a corrupted file, so I had to do some digging and eventually found a link to download the version of it that I use once again. After downloading copy number 2, it seemed to operate correctly once again. I left it open overnight (didn't want to be caught short this morning when I needed to access it), but it now seems to be restored. I guess the trial by fire will be tonight after I've shut the main computer down for the day. If it is still accessible and still opens correctly, then I might finally have resolved all of the computer issues of the weekend - minus the printer mess which I will try to work on during the day today. 

I'm putting away my tiny violin of saga and doom and
trying to resume my crazy life once again. I still have
to finalized the taxes, but as long as my electronics
stays together, it'll be a breeze. 

So, I'm putting away my violin, the saga is over and I will allow life, such as it is, to return to normal once more. Electronics - the things I love to hate! They may drive me crazy, but I'm married to them. Come to think of it, I suppose my marriage could also fall under that basic description. Have a wonderful Tuesday and I'll be back tomorrow.